A ferocious rally that saw Galax overcome an 18-point deficit in less than four minutes was laid to waste by a two-minute barrage by Oak Hill Red’s R.J. Currington as the Warriors held off the Maroon Tide 77-64 in a nondistrict game Monday night.

LEBANON -- Galax placed six wrestlers in the championship round and came away with two individual titles, placing second in the team standings at the T.Tom Riner Memorial wrestling tournament this past weekend at Lebanon High School. Tate’s Creek, Ky. was the runaway winner in the team standings with 266.5 points, followed by the Maroon Tide, which held off Chancellor 183.5-176. Marion (150) and J.J.

RADFORD -- Carroll County trailed for virtually the entire game until forcing overtime with a late rally, but was unable to complete the comeback, falling 54-49 to Radford in a nondistrict game Wednesday. After taking its only lead in regulation by scoring the game’s first two points, Carroll County (10-3) faced its largest deficit of the game, 37-27, with less than six minutes to play before staging a furious rally.

BLACKSBURG -- The premise goes that if you practice hard, work hard and believe in yourself, some day you may get to play in a really big college gym in front of a whole lot of people. It happened to a bunch of girls from Carroll County a few years sooner than any may have hoped. The Carroll County 11-under AAU girls’ basketball team had the special privilege of being part of the